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[email protected] · July 23rd 07, 10:36 PM posted to sci.crypt,ne.weather.moderated

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In bound to Silicon Graphics: To:
Subject: sar source code

internet:root 543 wc -l *.[ch]
129 sa.h
626 sadc.c
532 saga.c
496 sagb.c
45 saghdr.h
1463 sar.c
220 timex.c
3511 total

3500 lines of source, across seven sources, each clearly labelled:

/* Copyright (c) 1984 AT&T */
/* All Rights Reserved */

/* THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T */
/* The copyright notice above does not evidence any */
/* actual or intended publication of such source code. */

...followed by another email with a subset of the same source,
slightly modified, and the proprietary header stripped out.

I hope it didn't flow past AT&T's ISP connections...
[snip]

********** end excerpt from 'Corruption at Salomon Brothers' **********

This transfer of proprietary source code that USED to be owned by AT&T
did not even qualify for action. Salomon legal stated Salomon has a lower
obligation for third-party copyrights than they did for software they
contracted for themselves, like Sybase. Salomon didn't have a UNIX source
license, so obviously the employee had gotten it elsewhere.

In the following statistic, it was the only non-Salomon source code.

We went from zero monitoring of Internet email traffic to...

On 3/21/96 we had our first security incident report.

By 3/26/96 we had an astonishing 38,000 lines of proprietary source code
outbound.

We were men

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